On June 26, 2016 the Minister of Democratic Institutions and Member of Parliament for Peterborough-Kawartha, Maryam Monsef, on behalf of the Minister of Environment and Climate Change and Minister responsible for Parks Canada, Catherine McKenna, announced a historic federal infrastructure investment of nearly $270 million to restore and improve the Trent-Severn Waterway National Historic Site. …

The Trent-Severn Waterway (TSW) will get a historic federal investment of nearly $270 million. Peterborough-Kawartha MP and Minister of Democratic Institutions Maryam Monsef announced the news at the city’s Lock 21 on Sunday on behalf of Catherine McKenna, Minister of Environment and Climate Change and the minister responsible for Parks Canada, which operates the waterway. …

The city set a new record Sunday for the most paddle crafts in Peterborough’s Lock 21 at once. One-hundred-and-thirty-eight kayaks and canoes filled the west lift for National Canoe Day, breaking the city’s previous record of 101 set in 2003. Land Canadian Adventures started taking paddlers through the world’s largest hydraulic lift lock on National …

VOICES for the Trent-Severn Waterway (TSW) held an important meeting Sunday June 28, 2015 in the Buckhorn Community Centre. More than 200 came out to hear speakers TSW Working Group Chair Mark Ackert, TSW Director Ontario Waterways Jewell Cunningham and former Chair Peterborough Canoe Museum Ken Powell (Stony Laker). Ably chaired by VOICES Chair Brain Hunt, …

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WELCOME TO VOICES FOR THE TRENT SEVERN WATERWAY

This site is a resource of News, Reports, Position Papers and Historical Information about the Trent Severn Waterway. It is also a means to gather comments and concerns about every facet of operations and management that affect not just the system but the population living in its vast watershed. It is also a channel for your comments and concerns as stakeholders. With strength in numbers we can deliver those concerns to the people who may influence decision makers in taking the right course of action.

Voices for the TSW supports the following:

The TSW System must be provided with adequate sustained funding to restore and upgrade its infrastructure and where appropriate/necessary enhance its operations in order to achieve its mandate.

Top priorities for the TSW System Mandate are:

adequate water flows to sustain water quality, as well as,

improve water conservation throughout the system, protect our significant wet lands, while maintaining the historic navigation

water levels in the reservoir, flow-through or canal lakes, and

generation of hydro electric power on the TSW utilizing water flow should fairly reimburse the system given the infrastructure needed to maintain water flow.

Parks Canada who is responsible for the TSW must have the authority and capabilities to develop and manage the TSW watershed in regard to all aspects involving water quality, economic development, environmental matters and inter governmental coordination. Parks Canada must have a mandate that can develop and manage the TSW in order to resolve the issues facing the TSW. Parks Canada must have the authority to act and its mandate must be broad enough to deal with the complex issues facing the TSW now and in the future.

Voices for the TSW is committed to working with all individuals, stakeholders and associations in the best interests of the Trent Severn Watershed.